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898Motion User Guide
• Ring Teeth: A slider that controls the number of teeth on the outer drawing ring.
• Gear Teeth: A slider that controls the number of teeth on the inner gear. A lower Gear
Teeth value results in a more complex drawing. (You can also use the Adjust Item tool to
modify this parameter with onscreen controls.)
• Gear Location: A pop-up menu that sets whether the drawing occurs outside or inside
the ring. There are two choices:
• Inside Ring: All drawing occurs within the radius of the ring.
• Outside Ring: All drawing occurs outside the radius of the ring.
• Ring Rotation: A dial that turns the ring (and the attached gear).
• Gear Rotation: A dial that turns the gear (and the attached pen point).
Use Spiral Drawing onscreen controls in Motion
You can use the Spiral Drawing onscreen controls to adjust the position of the drawing
in the canvas, the location of the pen within the gear, the size of the stator ring, and the
number of teeth and rotation of the gear.
Adjust the Spiral Drawing using onscreen controls
1. In the Layers list, canvas, Timeline, select an applied Spiral Drawing generator.
2. In the canvas toolbar, click and hold the transform tools pop-up menu, then choose
Adjust Item.
3. In the canvas, do any of the following:
• Drag the center onscreen control (or any blank area within the ring or gears) to
reposition the drawing in the canvas.
• Drag the ring inward to decrease its radius or outward to increase its radius.
• Drag the gear inward to decrease its teeth value or outward to increase its teeth
value. This affects how closely the pattern is drawn to the center of the spiral.